Ready for your closeup, Minister? Former British energy minister Chris Huhne bumps into a photographer outside Southwark Crown Court in London. Huhne and his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, were expected to receive jail sentences for lying about his speeding penalty points.

'And then there was the spring of '83 when the Basket Grass Workers Local 158 went on strike at the height of the hard-boiled egg shortage. Those were dark days, let me tell you …' Three-year-old Madalynn Gifford suffers a visit with the Easter Bunny at the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, N.J.

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Occupied with the octopi: Thane Shepherd, 5, climbs a cephalopod in front of the Poulsbo (Wash.) Marine Science Center.

The Pentagon chief's RV: A "Silver Bullet" airstream trailer carrying Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel rides inside an Air Force C-17 plane transporting him and his staff from Kabul to Ramstein Airbase in Germany. Hagel's first trip to Afghanistan was overshadowed by a contentious speech by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Eve of destruction: A Hindu dressed as Lord Shiva holds an ajgar (a snake that appears to be a python) as he takes part in a religious procession on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Jalandhar, India. Hindus mark Maha Shivratri by offering special prayers and fasting to worship Lord Shiva, the lord of destruction.

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Good luck with this lie, Tiger: Tiger Woods' ball rests in a palm tree after his shot on the 17th hole during the third round of the Cadillac Championship in Doral, Fla. It didn't matter - Woods went on to win the tournament.

Ice-climbing for the first time, Jenna Cho picks her way up a frozen waterfall in People's State Forest in Barkhamsted, Conn.

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Some spillage is unavoidable: An orphaned bonobo drinks sloppily from a water bottle after being rescued at the Jardin Rose bar in Kinshasa's Kinkole neighborhood. Its new home will be Lola ya bonobo (Paradise for bonobos), a sanctuary outside Kinshasa for bonobos saved from illegal trafficking.